Released in 2021 by GMT Games, Bayonets & Tomahawks (or B&T for short) is a simulation of the French & Indian War from first-time designer Marc Rodrigue. A French-Canadian, Mr. Rodrigue has had a lifelong interest in the French & Indian War and is even a reenactor who performs regularly at such notable locales as Fort Ticonderoga (or Fort Carillon as it was first named by the French).

Although Native Americans fought on both sides, the British colonists named the war after their opponents. It began in 1754 and did not officially end until 1763. Two years after it began, the war expanded into a much larger conflict known as the Seven Years War. By this time the war in North America was, to a certain extent, a sideshow of this wider war. Regardless, the French & Indian War eventually led to Britain becoming the world's predominant colonial power and laid the foundations for the American Revolution.

Faction Cards

Most card-driven games use cards that include an event in text and an operations (or ops) value. Players decide whether to use the card for the event or for its ops value (or sometimes both) to move units, put…

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Overview

In the game of Wendake players take on the roles of tribal chieftains in the United States in the mid 1700s, during the time of the Seven Years’ War between England and France, as they work to increase their tribe’s presence and influence within the region.

The game uses a unique action selection system to achieve these goals. Each player has their own player board which is composed of 9 tiles depicting different actions that they can perform—actions such as hunting, fishing, trading, exploring, and farming for instance. On their turn, a player will select one of the actions in their display to perform and then place a marker on top of the action to show that it has been selected. On the next go round, they will select a second action followed by a third on the go round after that. However, the players can’t just choose any actions willy-nilly. Instead, the three actions all have to be in the same line either horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. Then, at the end of the action selection phase, the bottom three actions will fall out of their displays and the players will be able to choose from a selection of upgraded action tiles to replace one of the removed tiles with. The…

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